JANET TILSTRA
Fostering conversations between unexpected groups of people.

In this piece, I follow the structure of Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon children’s book to explore elements of change in the US.

This poem is about generational differences. The thoughts are based on a conglomeration of several intense moments of love and disagreement between me and my daughters with some thematic interpretation woven in. Please share your thoughts and experiences on this topic.

Sharing one more thing I've been working on. This one is mainly for we SLPs but gives a sense of how stuttering therapy is shifting.

In this tight experimental form--between prose and poetry--I recall everyday moments related to mortality and life decisions. I may come back and noodle on this piece more, but putting this start forward for now.